What is industrial design under Vietnam IP Law?
Under Vietnam IP Law, Industrial design means the outward appearance of a product embodied in three dimensional configuration, lines, colours or a combination of such elements
Industrial design registration
SBLAW would like to provide the client the legal procedure to register industrial design in Vietnam as follows:
1. Procedure
Protection criteria:
A industrial design shall be eligible for protection in the form of the grant of a Patent for Industrial Design when it satisfies the following conditions:
Being novel
Being of an inventive...
Registration of Industrial Design in Vietnam
If client would like to file an industrial design in Vietnam, SBLaw would like to provide our guidance as follows:
REGISTRATION PROCEDURE FOR INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS IN VIETNAM
1. Minimum documents
- 02 Declaration for registration which are typed according to form No. 03-KDCN Appendix A of Circular No. 01/2007/TT-BKHCN;
- 01 copy of the industrial design description; .
- 04 sets of photos or 04 sets of drawings of an industrial design.
- Fee and charge receipts.
2. Other documents (if...
Vietnam Industrial Design Protection
The fee for filling an industrial design application in Vietnam.
Use of an industrial design
Use of an industrial design is regulated by Vietnam IP law as follows:
Notification of refusal Industrial design application in Vietnam
If the applicant to whom the NOIP has sent a notice on its intended refusal of the application fails to correct errors or unsatisfactorily corrects errors or makes no opposition or makes unreasonable opposition to the intended rejection within the set time limit,the NOIP shall send a notice on its refusal of the application[...]
How to file your industrial design in Vietnam?
The fee for filling an industrial design application in Vietnam.
In order to file an industrial design application in Vietnam, the applicant has to pay the following fee:
1.1.Fee for filing an application for industrial design application (*)
- Additional charge for each additional variation from 2nd one
1.2. Claiming priority right (for each...
Requirements on industrial design registration applications
Documents identifying an industrial design registered for protection in an industrial design registration application include a description and a set of photos or drawings of such industrial design[...]
Conversion of Vietnam Industrial design applications
Before the NOIP issues a notice of its refusal to grant a protection title or a decision on the grant of a protection title[...]
Industrial Design Examination Procedure under Vietnam IP Law
In order to reach the Industrial design registration certificate, the applicants have to fulfill the whole examination procedure consists of following steps[...]
Industrial design registration applications
Documents identifying an industrial design registered for protection in an industrial design[...]
Notification of the formality examination result
An application for a Industrial design registration filed with the NOIP shall be subject to formality examination for evaluating its validity[...]
Notification of substantive examination results under Vietnam IP Law
On the date of expiration of the time limit for substantive examination of an application at the latest,the NOIP shall send to the applicant one of the following notices[...]















